Here's what happens next. We pass your details to one roofer who covers your area — not five, so your phone doesn't start ringing off the hook. They'll arrange a time that suits you, get up on the roof and look at it properly, and leave you with a written quote you can keep and compare against anyone else's.

We're not a roofing company, and that's the point. We're the people who find you a good one. Every contractor we work with holds a current CSLB licence and carries insurance, and we check both before they ever get your details. You get their licence number up front so you can verify it yourself.

If there's water coming in right now

First, the reassuring part. A leak feels like an emergency and it almost never is one. Put a bucket under it, and if the ceiling is bulging, pierce it with a screwdriver so the water drains in one place instead of spreading across the drywall. Take a photo of the stain. Then leave the roof alone — nobody should be up a wet roof in the rain, and from up there you'd probably not see the cause anyway.

Most rain-season leaks in Los Angeles are small and specific. A cracked or slipped tile. A failed flashing where a chimney, skylight or wall meets the roof. An open seam on a flat section. A perished rubber boot around a plumbing vent — the single most common leak point on a shingle roof, and one of the cheapest things to put right. A roofer who works on LA houses every day can usually find it in half an hour and tell you honestly whether it's a patch or the start of a bigger conversation. There's more on what that involves on the roof repair page.

How the matching works

You tell us what's happening. Where the house is, what you're seeing, roughly how old the roof is if you know. A minute, no more.
We match you with one contractor. One. Chosen for the area you're in and the kind of roof you have, because tile, composition shingle and flat roofs are genuinely different trades. We send you their CSLB licence number so you can check it on the state board's own site before they turn up.
They come out and inspect it. On the roof, in the attic if that's where the answer is, and then a written quote you can keep, read twice and compare against anything else you get.
You decide, in your own time. If they're not the right fit — the price, the timing, the way the conversation went — tell us and we'll match you with someone else at no cost. That's the whole arrangement.

One roofer, not four phone calls

Here's what happens on most sites that look like this one. You fill in a form, your name and number get sold to three or four roofing companies, and your phone starts ringing before you've closed the tab. You spend the next week fielding calls, and half the callers never saw the form you filled in.

Your details go to exactly one contractor here. Nobody else gets them, and they're not resold. The trade-off is honest and worth stating plainly: you're not getting a stack of competing bids delivered to your inbox. You're getting one licensed roofer who takes your job seriously because it wasn't sold to three of his competitors on the same morning, and a free swap if he isn't the one.

Why so many Los Angeles roofs are due right now

The median home in Los Angeles County was built in 1965. In the City of LA, 49% of houses predate 1960. Almost all of that stock has been re-roofed at least once, and a very large share of it was re-roofed in the 1990s, when a thirty-year composition shingle was the standard, sensible choice.

Do the arithmetic. A thirty-year shingle laid in 1994 is finished. Usually not dramatically — no hole, no collapse. Just finished: granules collecting in the gutters, edges curling, the surface gone chalky and brittle. A roof like that gets through a dry winter without complaint, then leaks in three places the first week it really rains. That's the position tens of thousands of LA houses are in this year, and most owners have no idea, because from the street the roof still looks fine.

If your house is that age and you don't know when it was last done, that's reason enough to have someone look. The inspection is free, and it either buys you peace of mind or several months to plan properly instead of scrambling in February. The roof replacement page walks through what a full re-roof involves.

The four things that actually drive roofing work here

Rain-season leaks, October to March

Los Angeles gets no hail, so there's no insurance-funded replacement wave here the way there is in Texas or Colorado. What LA gets instead is a long dry stretch where small faults go unnoticed, then a wet stretch that finds every one of them at once. Most winter calls are leaks that have been quietly developing since the last rain.

Roofs reaching the end

The age-out story above — the biggest category by a distance, and the one people put off longest, because a worn-out roof doesn't announce itself until it fails.

Solar re-roofs

Panels have to come off before a roof can be replaced and go back on afterwards, roughly $4,000 to $10,000 on its own. So the rule of thumb is simple: if the roof is 15 years or older, replace it before the panels go on, not five years after. In a county whose median home dates from 1965, that catches nearly everybody.

The Palisades and Eaton rebuild

Around 13,000 homes were lost. By August 2026 there were over 6,600 rebuilding applications and more than 3,100 permits issued, with the average wait from application to permit running about 49 days. Most of the roofing work sits in 2026 to 2028 — it's ahead, not behind.

If you're rebuilding in a fire hazard severity zone, one detail is worth knowing before you sign anything. Chapter 7A of the California Building Code requires a Class A roof assembly. That rating is earned by the whole build-up — deck, underlayment, covering, and how the edges, valleys and penetrations are detailed — not by the shingle on its own. A Class A shingle over the wrong underlayment is not a Class A assembly, and an inspector will say so. Chapter 7A also covers ember-resistant vents and non-combustible gutters. Ask any roofer to walk you through the assembly, not just the product.

What a roof costs in Los Angeles

These are estimate ranges for typical LA single-family homes, not quotes. Nobody can price a roof without standing on it. Size, pitch, how many layers come off, the state of the sheathing underneath and the access to your street all move the number.

Composition shingle re-roof: roughly $9,000 to $25,000. The volume material across the county.
Tile lift and relay: roughly $12,000 to $30,000. Tile almost never fails — the underlayment beneath it does. Sound tiles come off, new underlayment goes down, the same tiles go back. It's the right answer far more often than people expect, and much cheaper than starting again.
New tile throughout: roughly $25,000 to $60,000 and up, depending on the tile.
Flat and low-slope roofs — TPO, modified bitumen, cap sheet: roughly $12,000 to $30,000. Common on mid-century houses, hillside moderns, duplexes and small apartment buildings, where ponding water and failed seams are the usual culprits. For anything commercial or multi-unit, see commercial roofing.
Solar removal and reinstallation: roughly $4,000 to $10,000 on top of the roof itself.

Repairs are too varied to range honestly — a slipped tile and a failed chimney flashing are not the same job. Get it looked at, and get it in writing.

Areas covered

Los Angeles County. Contractors are matched by the part of the county you're in, because a roofer who works the Westside every week isn't the right pick for a hillside house in Altadena.

One practical note on permits. Re-roofs are permitted work. In the City of LA that means LADBS. Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Santa Monica and Torrance each run their own building departments with their own timelines and fees. A licensed contractor pulls the permit in his own name — if anyone suggests you pull it as the homeowner to save time, that should give you pause.

Tell us what's going on

Describe the problem, or just tell us the roof is old and you'd like someone to look at it. You'll get one licensed, insured Los Angeles roofing contractor, their CSLB number, a free inspection and a written quote. If they're not right for you, say so and we'll find someone who is.

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